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Having been nearly strangled to death with a cord, Lauren Astley remained alive as her killer slashed her throat — leaving a 41⁄2-inch-long “gaping-wide wound” — and then sliced her neck with a serrated knife numerous times, the state’s chief medical examiner testified yesterday in the murder trial of former Wayland High School football star Nathaniel Fujita.

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